Journal ArticleJournal of Family Issues · February 1, 2026
Among the megatrends the United Nations identified in 2020, technology strongly influences how families live. Communication technology, digital interventions, and remote work require families to integrate technology into their activities, use digital tools ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · February 2026
BackgroundDomestic violence mechanisms are frequently transmitted across generations, representing a global issue demanding particular attention. This study investigates the intergenerational transmission of intimate partner violence (IPV) and par ...
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Journal ArticleFamily Relations · December 1, 2025
Objective: This study explored the relationship between communicative openness (CO) and adoptive parents' attachment styles and reflective functioning. Background: CO involves addressing adoption-related issues within the family. Few studies have examined ...
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Journal ArticleDev Psychopathol · September 10, 2025
Although depression can be transmitted across generations, less is known about how this cycle can be interrupted. This study examines whether the multilevel Fast Track intervention (clinicaltrials.gov, NCT01653535) disrupts intergenerational transmission o ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · August 2025
This study examines whether parents' past communication with their own parents is associated with children's psychological difficulties and whether this association is mediated by parents' depression and self-efficacy. Evidence of the intergenerational tra ...
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Journal ArticleChild development · July 2025
Primal world beliefs ("primals") capture understanding of general characteristics of the world, such as whether the world is Good and Enticing. Children (N = 1215, 50% girls), mothers, and fathers from Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, T ...
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Journal ArticlePsicologia Clinica Dello Sviluppo · April 1, 2025
The communicative openness (CO) includes all the adoption-related communications within the adoptive family. Essential for the well-being of family members, CO could be influenced by parents’ reflective functioning and children’s psychological adjustment. ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · August 2024
This study investigated how individualism, collectivism and conformity are associated with parenting and child adjustment in 1297 families with 10-year-old children from 13 cultural groups in nine countries. With multilevel models disaggregating between- a ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of adolescence · July 2024
IntroductionCreating romantic relationships characterized by high-quality, satisfaction, few conflicts, and reasoning strategies to handle conflicts is an important developmental task for adolescents connected to the relational models they receive ...
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Journal ArticleAdoption Quarterly · January 1, 2024
Being an adoptive family member could be challenging, especially if the social context conveys unrealistic representations. In Italy, few studies explored socially shared beliefs about adoptive families. We investigated how adoptive parents and adopted chi ...
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Journal ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · December 2023
Communicative openness (CO) defines the willingness of parents and children to explore the significance of adoption. Especially in the first year of adoption, CO could be challenging for adoptive parents, who are influenced by personal characteristics. Usi ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health · June 2023
Hikikomori is a severe form of social withdrawal increasing among the young Italian population. Hikikomori has been connected to psychological problems and high environmental sensitivity. Nevertheless, only a few studies have been carried out in the ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health · February 2023
Infertility impacts several life dimensions. Among them, sexuality is particularly affected; yet studies have mainly focused on infertile women. We aimed to explore infertile men's and women's experiences in sexual satisfaction, internal control, and anxie ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health · August 2022
A mother's responses to her newborn and her confidence in the child's caretaking depend on her attachment security, general parental stress, and perceived self-efficacy. However, few studies have analyzed maternal confidence in caretaking and how it is inf ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Family Issues · April 1, 2022
Many Italian gay and lesbian individuals have the desire to become parents, despite the fact that they still face barriers due to the low acceptance of same-sex parenthood. This study investigates the desire and motivation of same-sex couples to have child ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health · March 2022
Adolescence is characterized by several transformations, such as identity construction, progressive estrangement from parents, relational interest in peers, and body changes that also involve sexuality issues. In this process, attachment patterns play a fu ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health · January 2022
Communicative openness within the adoptive family changes over time and helps the child explore his/her history. We aimed to evaluate whether adoptive families communicate about specific adoption-related themes from the beginning of their lives as a family ...
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